- GLC#
- GLC02437.03634-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 16 August 1787
- Author/Creator
- Ogden, Samuel, 1746-1810
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Morrisville, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 23.2 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Says he and Mrs. Ogden share in Knox's and Mrs. Knox affliction over their recent misfortune (Ogden is likely referring to the recent loss of Knox's youngest daughter, see GLC02437.03635). Invites Mrs. Knox to bring her children for a visit as "[o]ur Family and nieghbourhood are remarkably healthy, and I dare say what with the change of air & Exercise Lucys state of health would be mended and that Mrs Knox would sooner recover the very severe shock she has met with..." Written at Delaware Works, located in what is now Morrisville, Pennsylvania, near Trenton, New Jersey.
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